Value of exports is far less than that in roughly 2950 million. U. S. Exporters see a tremendous market in cuba by the authorizations they seek from us though currently they only export a small fraction of that. Those exports go through the cuban import agency. So thrs no changes in our regulations on exports to cuba because thats limitted by the trade sanctions. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman thank you for your statement. Our next witness, johnny smith acting director, office of foreign assets control, the department of treasury. Mr. Smith serves as acting director of the department of Treasury Department of foreign assets. Control or opac is mr. Smiths acronym for which he works which is tasked with administrating economic trade sanctions to advance u. S. National security and Foreign Policy goals. Prior to joining opac he served as expert to the United Nations taliban and sanctions committee. As a Trial Attorney at the u. S. Department of justice. Welcome to your new job. Tha
Threat to projects and Homeland Security counterterrorism program. He will be speaking on treasuries war, the unleashing of a new era of financial warfare. One final reminder. When this panel concludes we have to clear the room just like we did yesterday so the hotel can set up for lunch about 50 minutes and then well come back in and start our lunch program. Gives me great pleasure to introduce our moderator this morning, mary derosa, distinguished visitor from georgetown law. Thank you. [applause] thank you, everybody. Im very excited to be here as we have a really terrific panel. We are here to talk about cybersecurity, and how we address these significant and growing threat from criminals, hackers, terrorists, anarchists, and other nations who are spying on us, stealing from us, intruding, disrupting and potentially attacking our private sector government infrastructure. I dont feel like i have to say very much about the threat, gives a lot of background, particularly in this crowd
Lets go to a second question and that is given the way in which this nexus crosses two communities, the Law Enforcement community and the National Security community, are we effectively organized to deal with these problems and the special issues of this nexus and how should we be changing our organization nationally or internationally to be dealing with these issues. Any thoughts from the panelists . We should not go to knee jerk reactions when a major disaster happens and ill give you an example. Back in the days of my partnership of trying to bridge that gap between intel and Law Enforcement and Work Together, during that time we had an Organization Called the organized crime operation. S group. Case officers from the cia, i had about 15, at any given time 15 to 20 fbi agents and analysts assigned there fulltime. It was very successful. With regard to Human Trafficking internationally, we did two renditions in that program for Major International human smugglers working together. 9
I just want to read a couple post did an article about you in 2005 and lines. Tell us what your approach is. Ohio. Sswoman from who called martha a courd. A wrinkly d to her one of the things that happens when you try to cover inside politics, a lot of these pics are basically inaccessible to broad audiences. If you want to talk about congressional procedure. Inaccessible to is this person thats that sort of character and there is a good guy over here and it allows them to follow the story. There is a term paper which will is this person thats that sort of character and there is a good guy over here and it allows them to follow the story. There is a term paper which will put them to sleep. The other side of the political system gets the same treatment, you say on harry reid, the Senate Democratic leader from nevada, quote a prolife mormon with a Campaign Chest full of casin know money. Another thing i know about this process is if the reader knows what your the finances are really resp
Publishing company and asked to edit an anthology of gonzo journalism, and i took the project because i wanted to talk it gonzo journalism will only seems to apply to that one writer, hunter thompson. I want to read a couple lines, and tell us what your approaches, why you go this way. Jean smit, from cincinnati ohio, you refer to her as a wrinkly, which like woman with a penchant for dressing like a , what are you doing there . I guess one of the things that happens when you try to , orr the inside of politics wall street, a lot of these basically inaccessible to broad audiences or really really difficult to sell to people if you want to talk about commercial and procedure. That one article is about the rules committee, and one of the things you have to do, i think, in order to get people interested in these topics is to turn it into a human drama. Characters ande you have to use fiction technique to characterize people so that people know that one person is a certain kind of her, and